Alexis Knapp
Knapp in 2012, photo by Prphotos.com
Place of Birth: Avonmore, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Date of Birth: July 31, 1989
Ethnicity:
*father – German, English, Scottish, Irish, distant Dutch
*mother – Ecuadorian, Cuban
Alexis Knapp is an American actress and singer. She is known for her role in the Pitch Perfect films.
She was partly raised in North Carolina. She has a daughter with her former partner, actor Ryan Phillippe.
Alexis’s paternal grandfather is Richard Elwood Knapp (the son of Charles Elwood Knapp and Evelyn Virginia O’Leary). Richard was born in Pennsylvania. Charles was the son of Jacob Charles Knapp and Katherine/Kate/Kathryn Rose Reedy.
Alexis’s paternal grandmother was Jewel McNeil Burke (the daughter of Samuel Jessee Burke and Auda/Audie Lee Johnson). Jewell was born in Virginia. Samuel was the son of Isaiah Nathaniel Burke and Sarah Frances Salyers/Salyer. Audie was the daughter of Samuel Daniel Johnson and Josephine Caroline Bartlett.
Alexis’s maternal grandfather was Alfredo Vicente Merizalde Romo-Leroux (the son of Alejandro Romo-Leroux and Herminia Merizalde). Alfredo was born in Quito, Ecuador. Herminia was the daughter of Ricardo Merizalde and Antonia Ona.
Alexis’s maternal grandmother was named Esther Garcia Montejo. Esther was born in Havana, Cuba.
Sources: Genealogy of Alexis’s father (focusing on his mother’s side) – http://www.angelfire.com
Obituary of Alexis’s paternal grandmother, Jewel McNeil (Burke) Knapp – http://www.legacy.com
Darren Criss and Alexis Knapp are 6th cousins through their common ancestor Artemas Bartlett, 1774-1835.
Alexis’s maternal grandfather was Alfredo Vicente Merizalde Romo-Leroux (the son of Alejandro Romo-Leroux and Herminia Merizalde). Alfredo was born in Quito, Ecuador.
Alexis’s maternal grandmother was named Esther Garcia Montejo. Esther was born in Havana, Cuba.
her mom is Marjorie Ester Romo-Leraul
http://www.angelfire.com/folk/treeandbranches/fam262.html
Ecuadorian or Cuban aren not ethnicities. She has white blood on her mother side too, Romo and Leraul are surnames that come to Spain and France respectively, so she is Spanish-French on her mother side (with Ecuadorian and Cuban nationality).
Do not always make the same mistake, please!
Before anyone goes “Oh, she’s Latina”, keep in mind she was born and raised in the US. It’s unlikely she was educated as a Latina, which is a culture.
agreed, people think ethnicity is the same nationality or they commonly get the two mistaken and can’t work out the differences, like classing someone who’s a few generations american with some asian ancestry as an “asian” when they weren’t born, raised nor have they even been to asia
Yeah we Latin Americans don´t considerer an American with Latin American anscendency to be latino, at least if they don´t speak a Latin derivated language. Latin is about culture and the most important of that is language. For exmaple, nobody in Latin America will call Selena Gomez, America Ferrerra, Eva Longoria or Jessica Alba as latinas.May be Pitbull, only because he speak a good Spanish and still have a very strong conection with Latin countries.